River Town Chronicles
Subtitle: Pleasures and Perils of Life in India
Publisher: Original Writing
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781908024749; 9781906018481
Subjects: Travel; Description and travel
Description: Leighton Hazlehurst goes behind the scenes to chronicle events in his family's everyday life in a town in northwest India during the 1960s. River Town Chronicles provides a rare glimpse into a world many Westerners have heard about but few have experienced. Leighton Hazlehurst received his PhD in Cultural Anthropology from The University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of several scholarly works on India and a former Associate Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University. He and his wife Pat live in the Pacific Northwest where they are currently studying Spanish and tra.
Table of contents: title: Author's note; mad dogs; finding a place to live; back to delhi; shopping in chandni chowk; train to river town; new neighbors; bananas and milk; kaga the crow; merchant neighborhoods; monsoon rains; the other side of river town; a thump in the night; akbar's harem; lallaji; village etiquette; monkey business; illness strikes home; help arrives; respite in delhi; a sacred place; evil spirits; rama's play; the brahman's words; a measure of honor; tamasha; snake charmer; back to delhi again; a dead body in the hall; raja sahab; in search of river town's past; a stranger at the gate.; title: In search of epic traditionsgujars; the sweet shop; a strange illness; swimming toward shore; a visit to kashmir; one last trip to river town; at the airport; washed on shore; epilogue.